e alexander

KU Jayhawk
  • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Toni Johnson Center for Racial and Social Justice

Contact Info

785-864-2025
309 Twente Hall

Biography —

e alexander (PhD, MSW) is an interdisciplinary scholar with a multi-level practice lens. They are also trained as an advanced (post)qualitative and mixed methodologist.

Education —

Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs, The Ohio State University

Research —

Current Research Areas:

  • Culturally-sustaining approaches to research and teaching/training, across disciplines
  • Organizational violence in relation to BIPOC women's/femmes' labor politics 
  • College campuses as multi-level service providers
  • Social disparities and protective factors on college campuses, with a focus on BIPOC women and femmes
  • Intersectional and neocolonial violence, and subaltern resistance, in higher education

 

Additional Research Interests:

With a focus on women and femmes:

  • Social disparities and protective factors in rural Black communities
  • Culturally-sustaining community-based wellness practices among people of the Black Diaspora
  • Comparative/international labor politics among Black workers in the military and blue-collar sectors
  • Improving anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the STEMM disciplines

Selected Publications —

alexander, e. (2023). Becoming Black womxn through embodied inquiry. Affilia, 38(4) (Special Issue: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work), 687–702. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099231180163

Stone-Sabali, S., Mallory, A. B., Mills, K. J., & alexander, e. (2023). Black Lives Matter and other Signs of Solidarity: Perspectives from Black STEM graduate students. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023, 1-29. http://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21896

alexander, e. (2022). As they see it: Black women’s conceptualizations of professional socialization in education graduate programs. Race Ethnicity and Education (ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2022.2106880.

alexander, e. (2022). Locating Themselves: Black Womxn’s Geographies of Professional Socialization. Research in Education Policy and Management, 4(2) (Special Issue: Reimagining Educational Policy and Leadership Beyond the Plunder of Neoliberal Technorationality), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.46303/repam.2022.8

Pasque, P. A., & alexander, e (Eds.). (2022). Advancing culturally responsive research and researchers: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003126621

 

 

Selected Presentations —

Xie, W., & alexander, e. (2021, April 9). Chinese International Students, COVID, and the new racism. 2021 Annual Meeting, American Educational Research.

Snipes, J. T. & alexander, e. (2020, November 20). Bringing (Big)Momma with me: A collaborative autoethnography of classroom pedagogy. Annual Conference, Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Uanhoro, J. O. , & alexander, e. (2020, November 19). Race, salary, and employment status among faculty: A generalized multilevel correlation analysis. Annual Conference, Association for the Study of Higher Education.

alexander, e. (2020, March 4). A spiritual identity development model for Black femme college students. 2020 National Convention, American College Personnel Association.

alexander, e. (2019, April 8). Sista circles: Black femme student retention through intragroup community. 2019 Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association.